💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Old Computer Challenge - Modern web for the ZX Spectrum 2025/10/19 Table of contents # Last year I participated in the OCC challenge and between work and personal life I totally forgot about it, luckily I saw a post online of someone doing the challenge and remembered about it. I didn’t want to miss this year challenge as it was fun learning something new last year, so hopefully its not too late. This years challenge it was a DIY, you could create your own OCC…
✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldThe Argentine peso has fallen below the level it reached before the US Treasury began purchases earlier this month, in a sign the Trump administration’s financial support is failing to halt the currency’s slide ahead of a crucial election for libertarian President Javier Milei.The peso dropped almost 1 per cent on Monday to close at 1,477 against the dollar, a new record low, near the…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Blog HomeThis post is part of a collection on UUIDs.What is IDOR?Indirect Object Reference (IDOR) occurs when a resource can be accessed directly by its ID even when the user does not have proper authorization to access it. IDOR is a common mistake when using a separate service for storing files, such as a publicly readable Amazon S3 bucket. The web application may perform access control checks correctly, but the storage service does not.Here’s vulnerable Django code which allows a user to view their latest billing…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Main takeaway: Have you ever asked yourself what if we could replace any message broker with a very simple one using only two UNIX signals? Well, I’m not surprised if you didn’t. But I did. And I want to share my journey of how I achieved it. If you want to learn about UNIX signals, binary operations the easy way, how a message broker works under the hood, and a bit of Ruby, this post is for you. And if you came here just because of the clickbait…
💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: With the fourth betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1, Apple has introduced a new setting that's designed to allow users to customize the look of Liquid Glass. The toggle lets users select from a clear look for Liquid Glass, or a tinted look. Clear is the current Liquid Glass design, which is more transparent and shows the background underneath buttons, bars, and menus, while tinted increases the opacity of Liquid Glass and adds more contrast. The new setting can be found on iOS…
🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: column "It's always DNS" is a long-standing sysadmin saw, and with good reason: a disproportionate number of outages are at their heart DNS issues. And so today, as AWS is still repairing its downed cloud as this article goes to press, it becomes clear that the culprit is once again DNS. But if you or I know this, AWS certainly does. And so, a quiet suspicion starts to circulate: where have the senior AWS engineers who've been to this dance before gone? And the…
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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Key idea: Today, we're introducing Claude Code on the web, a new way to delegate coding tasks directly from your browser.Now in beta as a research preview, you can assign multiple coding tasks to Claude that run on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure, perfect for tackling bug backlogs, routine fixes, or parallel development work.Run coding tasks in parallelClaude Code on the web lets you kick off coding sessions without opening your terminal. Connect your GitHub repositories, describe what you need, and Claude handles the implementation. Each session runs in its…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: This was a timed post. The way these work is that if it takes me more than one hour to complete the post, an applet that I made deletes everything I’ve written so far and I abandon the post. You can find my previous timed post here.Are we getting smarter? Are we getting dumber? Headlines and anecdotes are bisexual about these questions. The mainstream view is that we’ve been getting smarter and dumber at different times:Prior to the 1990s, the 2000s, or the 2010s—depending…
✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: September 2025 XTX is an algorithmic trading firm: it builds statistical models that produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments worldwide. We use those forecasts to make trades. As XTX's research efforts to build better models ramped up, the demand for resources kept increasing. The firm started out with a couple of desktops and an NFS server, and 10 years later ended up with tens of thousands of high-end GPUs, hundreds of thousands of CPUs, and hundreds of petabytes of storage. As compute…
